between deficit and debt the deficit of course is the annual budget deficit of the government and the national debt is built up over decades who knows how long it's been building up and how big it is it here is close to one point four trillion pounds but david cameron tells porkies about britain's national debt david cameron on i.t.v. said this quote though this government has had to make difficult decisions we're making progress we're paying down britain's debt and now we're going to cut to a party political broadcast where he's telling these porkies he's confusing the british population between deficit and debt but i know people don't just want to hear. they want to know the facts that's why we're letting people know exactly what this go much cheaper so far. i would say the deficit is going maybe by one point five percent to three percent three percent of your skills are right i would say on the side on the public part it's gone down but i'm afraid that i am with. this group but i think that's pretty good going i think that the dumb well yes so the spectator referring to this politi